California Elephant Lays A Big Goose Egg

Since last Summer, observers and activists alike have trained
theirs eyes on California. First, her Supremes decided it was okay
to allow homosexual marriage. Then, the people spoke and
amended their Constitution. Finally, the California Supremes
decided that the people had the right to do what their
constitution gave them a right to do. Wow! Talk about drama.
But now the elephant in the room has lain a big goose egg. It is
temporarily out of the traditional values spotlight. That is a good
thing for all the rest of us. It means we still have time to prepare
for a "Normandy-style" invasion.


But let's take inventory of the facts for a moment. Perhaps you
haven't noticed (maybe you were on another planet), but things
have not been going so well for the traditional marriage
movement. Massachusetts {5+ yrs}, Connecticut {8 mos.},
California {6 mos. (now reversed, except for 18000 couples)},
Iowa {1+ month}, Vermont {2 months}, Maine {1 month},
New Hampshire {almost, maybe}, several others trying... Of
course, traditional marriage is just the tip of the iceberg, so to
speak. To simply get a survey of what is happening on the whole
sex culture war, you have to realize that there are many other
fronts on which the opposition is moving. Below is a partial listing
of the government-only affiliated battles now raging:

• removing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy;
  
• expanding hate crimes legislation;
  
• repealing the federal defense of marriage act (DOMA);
  
• passing the employment non-discrimination act (ENDA);
  
• expanding the adoption rights for gays and lesbians;
  
• "empathetic" appointments to judiciary directed at gays

and lesbians;

• school curriculums which are altered to teach children

that same-sex marriages are normal, moral, and equivalent
of traditional marriages (and only bigots would think
otherwise).
To do justice to providing the full scope of the onslaught, one
would have to look at the extensive efforts of non-governmental
action such as the media's complicit role. I'm sorry,even the
demographics don't help us. The trend is worldwide, and the
younger generation is much more apt to buy into GLBT
propaganda -- so far.


A little over five years ago, as a Kentucky Pastor (see partial ref.
: http://virtue1st.org/DefendMarriage/aboutinfo.htm ), I became
convicted to the core that America was headed down a
Doomsday path. I was literally shook to the core while visiting a
mission on a South Dakota Indian reservation. In late 2003, Judge
Bork was being interviewed and was talking about what was
getting ready to transpire legally with homosexual "rights". Until
this time, I had, like many of you, nothing more than a passing
interest in the subject. I knew I wasn't gay, didn't hate gays, and
had been generally unaffected by the odd and sinful behavior of a
fringe element. But this interview woke me up as a pastor, and
the conviction which followed made it stunningly clear that our
country was headed for judgment and the wrath of God. I believe
the Bible. I believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were real places
where God poured out His wrath. My country, the land of liberty
where I enjoyed freedoms of religion, association, and speech -
my country - was about to come into the cross-hairs of
judgment. The drops of mercy we had all collectively pushed to
the limit through national abortion were about to cease and
produce a harvest of despair that God Himself would prepare for
us. Oh sure, there are many sins for which we are responsible.
Our materialism, for instance, would outstrip many previous
cultures. But what abortion and sodomite-marriages demonstrate
is that our conscious has been so seared that we are almost
beyond hope. I say almost.

I say we are almost beyond hope because in Kentucky, I know
there is a remnant. I found it five years ago. And recently, in
Iowa, I met a remnant also. Please remember that before God
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, He had a discussion with
Abraham. Abraham basically asked if God would destroy the land
if any righteous person were living in it. The answer came back,
"No". So there is hope in Iowa. Again, God was ready to destroy
Nineveh by the mouth of his prophet Jonah unless they repented.
They did. So, God withheld judgment of Nineveh for 400 years.
My friends, we stand at a Nineveh moment. Still, Nineveh had a
king which ordered repentance throughout the land. We, friends,
are the "king" in the United States of America. We, the citizens
and no others, will make that decision about wrath.


I beg your indulgence, but let me talk specifically about Iowa for
a moment. Iowa is like World War II France. It has been overrun
by the unrighteous and unscrupulous. Its Supreme judiciary is fat,
smug, and arrogant. Ditto for many in the legislature. It has a
governor who has refused to act on behalf of the people
regardless of his authority and responsibility to do so. In short,
the Iowa constitution makes a provision for runaway tyranny
by including this very important wording:

All political power is inherent in the people. Government is
instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people,
and they have the right, at all times, to alter or reform the
same, whenever the public good may require it.

What this means is that the good people of Iowa have both
the right and responsibility and this includes the biblical
mandate) to oppose a government which does not provide
for the PUBLIC GOOD. (To oppose them how? That is the
subject of my next DefendMarriage article,
"The Normandy Invasion").

My Iowa friends, your government has been hijacked. It no
longer is acting, as a whole, for the good of the people. It is not
acting for the good of your children and grandchildren. It will, in
the end, stifle your liberties. You can act as though there is
nothing you can do, or you can ready yourself for action to take
it back.  If you choose the former, I'm afraid that makes you a
collaborator. If you are stopped by fear, please recognize that
those who were afraid -- who were too afraid to do the right
thing -- were cast into the Lake of Fire (cf.- Revelation 21:8).

Iowa is the main battlefront because it has become national
fodder for the homosexual movement.  I did not choose to go
to Iowa as a minister from Kentucky. I was compelled to go to
Iowa by recent circumstances. We dutifully canvassed the
Iowan landscape from one end to the other for three weeks. I
talked to pastors and lay leaders and pro-family lobbyists and
legislators and just plain folks. The conclusion was nearly
unanimous: you were "snookered". Some saw this coming,
while others did not. It is clear that if the people got an
opportunity to speak, the Iowa Supreme Court would have to
sit down and shut up! Marriage is between a man and woman -
period.  But I must tell you that I was most amazed at the
Church leadership in general (there were some notable
exceptions). Almost invariably, they were silent or wanted to
make it seem as though there was nothing they could do. Many
begged my son and I as we toured Iowa to tell them what to do.
"What could they do?" Let me present an analogy:

Suppose you were carrying your child across a scenic bridge that
traversed a calm but deep pool of water. Suddenly, the
unthinkable happened. Your child wriggled free and went plunging
into the water. You were unable to swim at all, and in fact, you
were handicapped. You watched in terror. You screamed
frantically for help as many, many others stood by and watched.
The outcome was certain unless someone stepped forward and
tried to save your child. To your shock and horror, not many
seemed interested. Some made suggestions. Some blamed you.
Some ran off to send a letter of protest to their local government
official. Some made a few calls to officials.  Some stayed on the
sidelines and prayed. And some actually rejoiced that "survival of
the fittest was taking its natural course". However, most just
went about their business and tried to pretend that life would go
on as normal. In the end, when interviewed, most would say
they had a personal dislike for drowning children, but what could
they do?


If I hadn't seen this before in Kentucky, I too would have been
mortified. In 2004, in the midst of our campaign to make
Kentuckians aware of a state amendment to protect traditional
marriage, we went to a medium sized church called Parkway with
our Support Traditional Marriage Bus. Our job was to inform
Kentuckians and rally Christ-believers. Of course, in Louisville we
already had had a foretaste of what was to come. No matter how
many rallies we organized or what pastors were approached, very
few churches seemed to want to get involved.  In marriage?!? We
stepped up our campaign directly at the source of the evil
propaganda, "the Fairness Campaign", by paying them a visit and
legally protesting outside their headquarters. They called the
police three times. All three times the police said we were legal,
and finally directed the homosexual Fairness Campaign to cease
and desist.  But again, this was a church outside a major
metropolitan area where the sympathies tend to be much more
favorable to traditional marriage.  Or, so we thought.

We attended the first service at Parkway and to our mild
amazement, the church made no reference to visitors or our
cause. So, we decided to leave business cards on each car that
informed the people about the marriage amendment and our
website where they could learn more. This drew the immediate ire
of two pro-homosexual activists WITHIN the church who went
immediately to seek help from the church deacons. They came
out and demanded that we remove the cards. Nothing doing.
The cards were now in the possession of individual property
owners on their cars. Believe me, we knew our rights. Had they
asked us to move the bus (because it was on private church
property in the parking lot), we would have been obligated to do
so. They never asked for this. Instead, they insisted that we
remove the cards.  Nope, not gonna happen. They asked if we
would like to speak with a state policeman who was in the
congregation. We said," fine". (We'd grown quite accustomed to
ranting homosexual activists calling the police and having us
move in the finer parking lots of such places as Walmart, malls,
grocery stores -- even a U.S. Post Office). The state policeman
knew the law, as did we. There was nothing he could do. This
went on until the end of the second service whereupon the
congregation spotted many of their deacons and leaders and
concluded that they must be over by our bus doing the right
thing. We were asking people to sign a petition. Their natural
conclusion was that their leaders must be doing just that. They
rushed over to sign also.  By the end of the affair, most of their
leaders signed as well, too embarrassed to admit that they
were actually standing with the forces of evil. We won a very
great and hard-fought spiritual battle that day. A final note to
this victory was that just down the road not too far was another
church that had the complete opposite reaction -- loving and
affirming us with every word and deed.

In the end, we learned a lot about churches in general, and
particularly leadership. Let me mildly say that the Bible has much
to say about those who claim to be teachers and preachers,
and they are and will be held to a higher standard. I firmly believe
that there are good, saved Christians scattered around in many
church denominations. I have found that I may not agree with
every point of theology, but by their fruits I have known them.
God has raised them up seemingly from nowhere, and I am sure
that such a crop exists in Iowa as well. I will also say that no
amount of resources can turn back the evil that we now see
being manifested, save One.  Many organizations have tried
various plans. Most of them have a track record of failure -- at
least when measured on the mega-scale of "preserving traditional
marriage with no compromise to sodomy".  DefendMarriage has
one simple approach: rely on God and use the truth to break
down every stronghold. It works.  Logic, science, or straight
Scripture -- the white hot truth never fails.


California has not laid the golden egg for homosexual activists.
Yes, you sodomites have won a few states. But please don't get
too excited. I know a Kentucky minister who is in imminent danger
of losing his home and most everything he owns because he will
not quit. Indeed, he cannot quit. He believes in Jesus' definition
of marriage (Mark 10:6-8; http://1flesh.us) and will defend the
honor of his Lord with his last breath if need be.  And, by the
grace of God, he's coming back to Iowa very soon. What's more,
he's found a few of the faithful who aren't ready to give up either.
This is bad news, ye prophets of Baal.  Normandy is coming.


your servant,
Rev. John Brewer
founder of Virtue1st inc./DefendMarriage


PS. -- (cf.- next DefendMarriage article, "The Normandy Invasion")